Posts by Warren 2

Why Would someone build a private cloud?

I have found dozens of examples of people making good use of virtualisation. Some examples of people incorporating on demand, self service type interfaces. I have even found one or two organisations that are starting to test pay as you use cost models.

None of these are private clouds.

On the worst end of the spectrum I have come across “Private Cloud” projects in Government organisations for which the business case reads something along the lines of “We will buy heaps of servers, we will use VMware, and we will be cloudy”! Even if these projects condensed water vapour from the atmosphere until precipitation occurred you still couldn’t call them private clouds.

I am beginning to form the view that Private cloud is a seriously dangerous concept, proposed by fearful IT organisations that want to be seen to be leading edge but aren’t prepared to give up the chattels of traditional enterprise IT.

Maybe we should start to stigmatise the words “Private Cloud”. Maybe we should force people to use the word Hypervisvirtualisondemandify instead; it would make them feel as silly saying it as the concept truly is.

If you could build a private cloud and out-compete Amazon (or any other public cloud provider) on price then go right ahead, otherwise put the money towards something more useful.

Enterprise is a niche market for Google

Why would google bother? The enterprise market is a saturated and competitive market which would be considered Niche compared to the consumer markets they dominate.

Carving out a market share of a Niche market might have been deemed too much bother.

Amphibipun

As to how the frog got in their, I haven't the froggiest idea.

What Security Problems

I just don't get these "Security" issues that prevent adoption of Cloud Computing. What is different in a cloud model? You still need infrastructure to be securely configured, you still need the gateway to be sensibly configured, you need the network layer to transmit in a secure way and you need the information to be secure at rest. All of this is possible with any cloud vendor.

I just don't get how multi tennancy adds any new security problems other than (and this is hardly a barrier in most circumstances) which country the data is stored.

I think that Control issues are more likely to be a barrier than security ones.

Social Networking in Outlook

Installed the Outlook / linked in connector today which activates the social networking connector. It sent the Office 2010 beta into an unrecoverable crash spiral. Re-installing as we speak - Thanks MS.

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